Collision box not moving with spatial

Troubleshooting physics
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I’m going to make this clear from the outset. I’m not a jMonkey wizard. I just downloaded the sdk a few days ago and I’m working on a school project using the engine. I’m going to try and make the issue I am having as clear as possible

I have a simple scene with a wall, a ball, and a tennis racket. Here’s a picture:
I have a key wired to make the ball start moving towards the wall when I push it. I have CollisionShapes around both the wall and the ball. I want the ball to stop moving when it touches the wall.

The ball always goes through the wall even though I have collision around both. Now, I have bulletAppState.setDebugEnabled(); set to true. I can see the collision boxes.
!https://i.imgur.com/heGtsdb.png

You can see that the collision box around the ball is not moving with the ball. I do not understand why this is happening. I have the collision box attached to the Spatial representing the ball written this way:
CollisionShape wallShape = CollisionShapeFactory.createBoxShape(wall);
wallCollision = new RigidBodyControl(wallShape, 0);
wall.addControl(wallCollision);

    //ball
    CollisionShape ballShape = CollisionShapeFactory.createBoxShape(ball);
    ballCollision = new RigidBodyControl(ballShape, 0);
    ball.addControl(ballCollision);

But still, the collision box does not move with the ball. Is there something here that I’m missing? Here’s the full code:

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I’m pretty sure you need to apply forces / set the location on the RigidBody control and not the spatial. Moving the spatial doesn’t change the physics engine.

3

The mass of your ball should not be 0 also.

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I had a question about moving an object too. Here’s how I do it in my code:

if(isRunning){
            //ballNode.move(new Vector3f( (ballNode.getLocalTranslation().getX()), (ballNode.getLocalTranslation().getY()), (ballNode.getLocalTranslation().getZ()  - .00002f)));
           ballNode.setLocalTranslation(new Vector3f( (ballNode.getLocalTranslation().getX()), (ballNode.getLocalTranslation().getY()), (ballNode.getLocalTranslation().getZ()  - .00002f)));
        }

Notably I use the setLocalTranslation() method instead of the move() method. I thought that there might be a problem with this. Does the physics system only work on movements done with the move() method?

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https://wiki.jmonkeyengine.org/jme3/beginner/hello_physics.html

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Using the move method you would still only be setting the location on the spatial which doesn’t change the physics object you created. You need to use the RigidBody Control. I would suggest looking at the tutorial thetoucher linked and play around with that example.